"We were running low and we're able to get a thousand doses," Zach Thompson with the Dallas County Health and Human Services said. "We'll evaluate how many more doses that we'll be needing to order, but right now that will (be) the gap."

Pharmacists are also struggling to fill prescriptions. Flu victim Deck Hulcy is one of many patients at one Texas pharmacy trying to get the drug Tamiflu.

"We were gonna go on a cruise with our granddads and didn't get to go," Hulcy said. "It was really bad, probably the sickest I've been in 20 years. Just couldn't get rid of it."